Activision
says
it
has
“disabled
a
workaround
to
a
detection
system”
in
Modern
Warfare
III
and
Call
of
Duty:
Warzone
that
led
to
legitimate
players
getting
banned
by
the
Ricochet
anti-cheat
system.
The
company
says
the
problem
“impacted
a
small
number
of
legitimate
player
accounts,”
and
all
accounts
affected
were
restored.
However,
zebleer,
who
runs
the
Phantom
Overlay
store
selling
cheats,
claims
the
problem
is
much
bigger
than
Activision’s
post
makes
it
seem.
In
a
detailed
post
on
X,
they
write
that
when
Ricochet
scanned
the
memory
of
a
player’s
computer
to
find
known
cheat
software,
one
of
the
signatures
it
scanned
for
was
a
plaintext
string
reading:
54
72
69
67
67
65
72
20
42
6f
74
(Trigger
Bot)
As
a
result,
zebleer
says
that
“for
quite
some
time,”
it
has
been
possible
to
get
someone
permanently
banned
simply
by
sending
them
a
friend
request
with
the
phrase
or
posting
a
message
like
“Nice
Trigger
Bot
dude!”
in
the
game’s
chat
since
it
would
then
show
up
in
their
memory
and
get
scanned
by
Ricochet.
Despite
Activision
saying
a
“small
number”
of
legit
accounts
were
affected,
zebleer
claims
that
“several
thousand
random
COD
players
were
banned
by
this
exploit”
before
anyone
started
targeting
big
streamers.
Zebleer
points
to
BobbyPoff,
a
Call
of
Duty
streamer,
as
one
of
the
people
banned
due
to
the
person
using
the
exploit
since
October
3rd
before
his
account
was
suddenly
unbanned
yesterday.
Like
other
players
and
streamers
caught
up
in
the
bans,
there
had
been
intense
speculation
and
discussion
over
whether
or
not
BobbyPoff
was
a
cheater,
even
as
he
maintained
his
innocence
and
some
people
posted
jokey
videos.
The
Call
of
Duty
Updates
account
says
that
the
Ricochet
team
will
share
a
blog
post
tomorrow,
though
the
account
didn’t
specify
if
the
post
will
discuss
this
exploit.
Activision
didn’t
immediately
respond
to
a
request
for
comment.
(Originally posted by Jay Peters)
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